FishCAT

FishCAT is the GlassFishCommunity Acceptance
Testing program. The goal of this program is to engage the
community to help significantly improve the quality of GlassFish Server Open Source Edition as
well as to get early feedback on stability and usability through testing
early builds.

Through FishCAT community members have an early opportunity to
test their applications on GlassFish 4.1 and the reported
bugs will have a higher likelihood of getting fixed before the
final release.

Contributing to GlassFish through the FishCAT program is one of
the most valuable and effective ways in helping the Java EE and GlassFish communities

Participating in FishCAT is very easy and hassle free - just file any bugs you find on the
GlassFish JIRA and make sure to mention "fishcat"
in the Tags field. We will keep track of the rest on your behalf.

The voice of the community has always been important to us and we need your help. Please do
consider donating some of your time to the FishCAT program.

GlassFish 4.1 Goals

The overall goals of GlassFish 4.1 is very specific and focused. These are the goals we need your help
in accomplishing:

Incorporating updates to all GlassFish components such as Mojarra, Jersey, Grizzly, Open MQ,
HK2, EclipseLink, JAXB, Weld and so on. These updates contain mostly bug fixes and some new features (detailed below).

Features to Test

The following are the things we would like you to focus on testing:

Download the GlassFish 4.1
latest promoted build
artifacts (Full Platform or Web Profile zip distributions) and install.
For the installation procedure, you can refer to the "Installing GlassFish Server from a ZIP File"
section on pages 1-12 in the GlassFish Installation Guide.

Make sure GlassFish works effectively with major IDEs such as
NetBeans, IntelliJ and Eclipse.

Regression test your existing applications to make sure they continue to work as expected.

Test GlassFish out with JDK 8 Update 5+.

Test out GlassFish bugs that have been fixed, including security bugs.
A list is available here.

Test out various GlassFish components. Most component updates are
just bug fixes, but there is some new functionality introduced:

Reach out

As usual, never hesitate to reach out via the GlassFish
mailing lists and forums
if you have questions, concerns, feedback or run into issues. We want
to make sure FishCAT is an effective and useful experience for you and
we will do whatever we can to help.